MOLECULAR NUTRITION
Identification of retroviral receptors and their use in gene therapy. Nutrient regulation of gene expression. Visit the site.
FACULTY
Colleen CRONIGER*: Metabolic regulation of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism using genetically-altered animal models.
Maria HATZOGLOU*: Molecular mechanisms in the regulation of gene expression during stress.
Danny MANOR*: Regulation of cell growth and oncogenesis, GTPase-mediated signaling, vitamin E biology.
Laura NAGY*: Effects of environmental factors such as diet and drugs on cellular signal transduction mechanism.
Jonathan WHITTAKER: Molecular basis of insulin and receptor activation.
NUTRITIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY & METABOLISM
Investigation in the regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism using stable isotope technology. Visit the site.
FACULTY
Henri Brunengraber*: Regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism with stable isotopes.
Paul Ernsberger: Nutrition and cardiovascular diseases, nutrient-drug interactions, metabolic pharmacology, genetic obesity and lipidds in cell signaling.
Janos Kerner: Functions of carnitine acyltransferases and acylcarnitines in intermediary metabolism and the investigation of the regulation of mitochondrial malonyl-CoA sensitive carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT-I).
John Kirwan: Physiological and cellular mechanisms by which exercise and nutrition can improve metabolic control (insulin resistance, obesity and type 2 diabetes) as well as body composition in older men and women.
Stephen Previs: Application of stable isotopes for measuring carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism.
APPLIED NUTRITION
Focuses on human nutrition and the application of the science of nutrition to the maintenance and improvement of health through professional study of dietetics, public health nutrition, medicine, dentistry or nursing. Specialty programs are avalaible in areas such as maternal and child nutrition or gerontology. Visit the site.
FACULTY
Hope Barkoukis: Nutritional management of chronic liver diseases.
Sharon Groh-Wargo: Neo-natal nutrition; Body composition and infancy.
Edith Lerner: Assessment of nutritional status during pregnancy.
Mary Beth Kavanagh: Eating disorders, weight management and nutrition for cardiovascular health.
Jane Korsberg: Weight management, diabetes, wellness promotion/disease prevention and control.
Isabel Parraga: Public health nutrition education; Maternal and child nutrition; International nutrition.
Alison Steiber: Chronic renal failure; Nutrition assessment; Carnitine.
James Swain: Iron bioavailability, status; dietary iron and intestinal tumorigenesis; transferrin metabolism.
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